Based on what you have learnt from past experiences, can you accept that something is being fabricated here by the mind state? If

In fact, the same is true of any state of the citta. It will form one inseparable package with its object. Separate citta states are not findable, nor are objects findable separate from a citta state. In any state, what appear are objects of perception, fabricated together and empty.

Along with the steadiness of the feelings of well-being, and of the attention on those feelings, we are also gently aiming at eventually having the whole space of the body suffused by and saturated with the feeling of well-being or pleasure.

there are many situations in life where a significant degree of dukkha can be released through recognizing voidnesses that are not so hard to see at all. Through just a small shift in, or refinement of, our way of looking we realize that some element or other involved is a fabrication, and that it has no inherent existence.

Even if these bodily feelings are only fleeting at first, it can be a significant step in their consolidation to learn to open to them in this way.

Because of the depth and force of fundamental delusion it is unfortunately normal for us, without profound practice, to be trapped in views of ourselves, locked into identities, at least at some level or other. And for complex reasons, in our modern Western culture a great deal of the pain that most people experience is at and in relation to what

A core insight repeatedly insisted on in this book is that fundamentally what gets us into trouble are the ways we typically view things, and our blind clinging to these ways of seeing.

the appearance of an object depends on the way of looking.

What appears in any state of more equanimity is an object that seems in itself an easier perception to be less reactive to.